mums200 Felix Goldberg Yiddish Manuscript, ca.1930- Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
2003

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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric S. Cartier. 2003-05-29 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu71 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Felix Goldberg Yiddish Manuscript, ca.1930 Finding Aid Manuscript Number 200 Compiled by Linda Seidman 1988 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Goldberg, Felix, ca. 1866-1948 Felix Goldberg Yiddish Manuscript ca.1930 MS 200 1 box (0.5 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst A loosely autobiographical manuscript written in Yiddish in the early 1930s by Felix Goldberg, an engraver who immigrated to the U.S. around 1900. English. Biographical Note

Felix Goldberg (ca. 1866-1948) was born in the shtetl Zhuprah in Lithuania. He immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century with his second wife, Janet Zelda. Two children from his first marriage remained in Russia. An engraver by training, Goldberg was generally unable to work in the U.S. due to ill health. His wife ran a boarding house for factory workers and itinerant ice harvesters; was a midwife and practical nurse, as well as a foster mother; and ran a convalescent home for charity patients to support the family.

The Goldbergs' son, Maxwell H., Massachusetts Agricultural College Class of 1928, received a Ph.D. from Yale University and returned to his alma mater to become, eventually, head of the English Department. In 1988 he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

A loosely autobiographical manuscript, written in Yiddish in the early 1930s, by Felix Goldberg.

The collection is open for research.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: Felix Goldberg Yiddish Manuscript (MS 200). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acquired from Maxwell H. Goldberg, 1988.

Processed by Linda Seidman, 1988.

 Search Terms Goldberg, Felix, ca. 1866-1948. Jews, Lithuanian--United States--Biography. Immigrants--United States--Biography. Autobiographies. Manuscripts.